Only in Boston by Duncan J.D. Smith

5 Contents Contents Introduction 9 CHARLESTOWN & EAST BOSTON 1 The Founding of Charlestown 11 2 A Once Mighty Shipyard 13 3 All Aboard Old Ironsides! 15 4 The Truth about Bunker Hill 17 5 Bridging the Charles River 19 6 A Walk through Eastie 21 7 Remembering 9/11 23 NORTH END 8 Reshaping the Shawmut Peninsula 25 9 An Outdoor Shrine to the Saints 28 10 The Great Boston Molasses Flood 30 11 A Memorial to Radio Operators 32 12 Copp’s Hill Burying Ground 34 13 Why the Skinny House? 36 14 One if by Land, and Two if by Sea 38 15 Ghosts of the Kennedys 40 16 Home of the Midnight Rider 42 17 North End Caffè and Cannoli 44 18 Remember the Ladies! 46 WEST END & BEACON HILL 19 A Temple for New England Sports 48 20 In Memory of the West End 50 21 An Electrifyingly Good Museum 52 22 Beneath the Ether Dome 54 23 Hotels with History 56 24 Three Homes for Mr. Otis 58 25 Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill 60 26 Boston’s Jewish Diaspora 62 27 America’s First Professional Architect 64